This is an elegy to Paul Kantner, who died yesterday. He co-founded Jefferson Airplane. His most memorable song he wrote for them was “Crown Of Creation”. I still remember seeing Jefferson Airplane in 1970 at the Shore. And when they did that song I moved and sat down in the aisle to hear it. I strongly identified with some of the words of that song: ‘you are the crown of creation, and you got no place to go’. The song gave me hope for change at a time my life felt helpless and out of control. Paul Kantner was a visionary. The last studio album Jefferson Starship, the group he founded, came out with was an album almost no one heard near the end of his career. It was full of protest and folk and other peoples’ material. It was unlike anything he ever put out. It was titled “Jefferson Tree Of Liberty”. He was a visionary to the very end.
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What is true courage? Others will have all different definitions of courage. I will suggest just a few. It is getting up and facing your day and proceeding when your outlook is dismal when everything is “black” to you and hoping against hope things will improve in your life.
It is trying something new for you are hoping for change and change often occurs in small degrees at a time.
It is facing your partner when things have turned sour and you are not too hopeful it will ever turn around.
It is having kids when your finances are uncertain, secure in the fact you will do whatever it takes to raise them properly.
There are so many definitions of what I call quiet courage that occur every day and these are just a few and I might continue this list another time.
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